The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360
Oct 27, 2026 · 13 min · 8 segments
On this episode of the Vet Blast Podcast, host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, sits down with dvm360 Student Ambassador Ajay Sawant, a veterinary intern and marine conservationist. Christman and Sawant dig…
And for students who are listening who want to get involved but feel maybe a little intimidated or underqualified, what are some practical first steps that you would recommend for those interested in wildlife or conservation medicine? I
feel like some of the easiest ways to get involved in wildlife medicine as well as conservation is research.
And I, as a person, have worked in conservation, at least more in conservation, for the past five years.
Every time someone reaches out to me, I always try to find tangible ways to get them involved.
Because they can, despite our ideologies, whether they're ethical or unethical, they really give you space to observe and understand animals better.
be it with a capture system or open systems, they're the place where you could actually work with these animals in pertinent terms, non-pertinent terms, observation.
And sometimes, even sitting in zoos, you get brilliant ideas about how these enclosures can be improved what can you include, how these animals interact with each other, or what kind of behavioral changes they've had within closed systems, how their wild behaviors can be better stored in captured systems as well, which I believe are equally important in education of younger generations.
Empathy is incredibly important, be it for people around you, animals around you, even in terms of companion animals.
In fact, we always have it in terms of companion animals, but also animals like if you see a stray cat or a crow, we have a lot of empathy bias at present.
And I feel like unless we have empathy for every living being, you cannot really be a wildlife friend because wildlife, if not always tigers and lions, is also animals.
terpenes, where animals which might not look beautiful but are equally important for the ecosystem and for the world to live in.
I love that you shared that having empathy and respect for nature and wildlife and especially with your patients as once you graduate, having that clinical empathy is going to go such a long, long way.
It's a balance of having the medicine with the emotional side of things that you deal with and empathy.
And for students who are listening who want to get involved but feel maybe a little intimidated or underqualified, what are some practical first steps that you would recommend for those interested in wildlife or conservation medicine? I
feel like some of the easiest ways to get involved in wildlife medicine as well as conservation is research.
And I, as a person, have worked in conservation, at least more in conservation, for the past five years.
Every time someone reaches out to me, I always try to find tangible ways to get them involved.
Because they can, despite our ideologies, whether they're ethical or unethical, they really give you space to observe and understand animals better.
be it with a capture system or open systems, they're the place where you could actually work with these animals in pertinent terms, non-pertinent terms, observation.
And sometimes, even sitting in zoos, you get brilliant ideas about how these enclosures can be improved what can you include, how these animals interact with each other, or what kind of behavioral changes they've had within closed systems, how their wild behaviors can be better stored in captured systems as well, which I believe are equally important in education of younger generations.
Empathy is incredibly important, be it for people around you, animals around you, even in terms of companion animals.
In fact, we always have it in terms of companion animals, but also animals like if you see a stray cat or a crow, we have a lot of empathy bias at present.
And I feel like unless we have empathy for every living being, you cannot really be a wildlife friend because wildlife, if not always tigers and lions, is also animals.
terpenes, where animals which might not look beautiful but are equally important for the ecosystem and for the world to live in.
I love that you shared that having empathy and respect for nature and wildlife and especially with your patients as once you graduate, having that clinical empathy is going to go such a long, long way.
It's a balance of having the medicine with the emotional side of things that you deal with and empathy.
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